01 a. Without color; pale; pallid.
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Without color; pale; pallid.[Obs.]“When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.” — Foxe.
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Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.“Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.” — Wordsworth.“At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach.” — Longfellow.
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3.
Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.